UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN STATISTICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Allied - Paper I - Applied Statistics I

Note:

The emphasis is solely upon the aplicational understanding and practice of statistical methods, with specific reference to problems in earth sciences.

UNIT - 1:

Nature and scope of statistical methods and their limitations and their applications in Geography - spatial data and statistical methods classification, tabulation and diagrammatic representation of various type of statistical data - frequency curves and Ogives - Graphical; determination of percentiles, quartiles and their uses, Lorenz curve.

UNIT - 2:

Measures of location - Arithmetic mean, median, mode, Geometric mean, Harmonic mean and their properties - merits and demerits.

UNIT - 3:

Measures of dispersion - Range, mean deviation, quartile deviation, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, skewness and kurtosis - and their properties.

UNIT - 4:

Probability of an event- Finitely additive probability space addition and multiplication theorems - Independence of events - conditional probability - Bayes’ theorem - simple problems.

UNIT - 5:

Concepts of random variable - Distribution function - Mathematical Expectation - Moments of random variable - Moment generating function - simple problem.

Books for Study:

Wonnacott, R.J. & Wonnacott, T. H. (1985): Introductory Statisti.cs. 4^th edition John Wiley & Sons.
David Ebdon (1977): Statistics in Geography - A practical approach Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Gregory. S. (1964): Statistical Methods and Geographer, Longman, London.

Books for Reference:

Snedecor, G.W., & Cochran, W.G.: Statistical Methods, Oxford and IBH.
Burr, I.W.: Applied Statistical Methods, Academic Press.
Aslam Mahmood and Moonis Raza, (1977): Statistical methods in Geographical studies.
Rajesh publications, New Delhi.
Hammond.R. and Mc. Cullagh.P. (1974): Quantitative Techniques in Geography; An introduction, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Science in Geography Series: (I-IV) Oxford University Press, London.
(I) Development of Geographical methods
(II) Data Collection.
(III) Data Description & Presentation
(IV) Data use and interpretation.